The demonetisation drive is likely to push up food prices, particularly the non-grain part. Here is why. In terms of value, vegetables, fruit, fish, milk and its by-products like cheese and paneer are 65 per...

Dolan, who is on a four-day visit to India, said demonetisation has impacted sales of alcoholic drinks, and allowing sale of alcoholic beverages at grocery stores and on e-commerce sites would spur growth.

I think in terms of consumption, yes there has been a little bit of slowdown but I think that is not do with the aspiration of a customer coming down in terms of upgrading their lifestyle to better clothing.

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A Smart, prompt and uptodate policy making mechanism is a need to leverage domestic manufacturing units and discourage dumping policy of China like country. Redundant formalities and prolonging behaviour in beaurocracry has caused to decline several MSMEs which playing a pivotal role in country''s economy.

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That is how our govt worked for all these years. No one had the vision for the situation to arise. Every one thought of themselves how to exploit. Now the Modi govt wants to mend but there is very little support. China took advantage.

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